Journal-bearing adjustment.



No. 894,532. `PM ENTED JULY 28.1908. y o. REEVES.

JOURNAL BEAEINGADJUSTMENT.

' APPLICATION FILED JULY-22,1905.

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. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLIFTON REEVES, OF TRENTON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM HARRISON JAMISON,

Y OF TREN-TON, NEW JERSEY.

JOURNAL-BE ARING AD JUSTMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

'Patented July 28, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLIFTON REEvEs, a citizen of the United States, `residing in Trenton, in the county of Mercer and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Journal-Bearing Adjustments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to and has for an object to provide means foradjusting machine parts toward and from each other, and more particularly for adjusting the parts of a journal bearing, as for instance, the ca of a twopart journal bearing relatively to t e bearing or fixed portion thereof, and consists in a sleeve surrounding the bolt for holdingl the cap in place and havin a screw-threaded connection with one of t e parts, generally the ca and which sleeve is adapted to be rotate by some suitable means, such as a collar, slidinglyengaging the sleeve, and occu ying a position between the nut on the bo t and the ca so that the setting down of the nut upon tlie bolt will clamp the collar in place and also clamp the sleeve against independent rotation, the sleeve in this manner being held not only by means of the collar connected to it, which may be a key connection, but also by the jamming of the screw threads of the sleeve a ainst those lof the bearing member by whic it is carried.

In the drawings accompanying 'and forming a part of this specification Figure 1 illustrates an end view of a portion of an engine frame rovided with a practicable embodimento the present improvement, and Fig. 2 is an enlarged view o the bearin portion thereof illustrated in longitudinal section transverse to the aXis of the shaft; a portion, however, of the arts in Fig. 2 are shown in side view instead) of section.

Although the invention may be applied to various machine parts requiring adjustment, one relatively to the other, yet the invention is peculiarly adapted .for journal bearings where the bearing is separated, as for instance, where there is a cap portion and a portion which is relatively stationary'and toward and from which the cap will require to be adjusted for taking up wear and changing the fit of the journal in the bearings.

For illustrating a manner of application of the improvement, it is shown mounted u on the framing member 3 of an engine an in connection with a bearing, one half 4 of 0f flanges.

,collar and sleeve.

which is cast with the frame and may for convenience be called the bearing portion, and the frame at each sideat the region of its juncture with the cap is provided with overhanging portions 5 somewhat in the nature The adjustable part of the bearing here shown as a cap 6, is held in place by some suitable bolts 7, each of which has a head 8 resting against the under side of one of the flanges 5 'and received between wings 9, which prevent the bolt from turning when the nuts upon the same are turned down.

A shaft 1() is shown mounted in the bearing to illustrate the .ap lication of the invention. Each of the `bolts 7 is provided with a pair of nuts 11 and 12 for tightening down the cap upon the journal, thus making its bearing t1 hter or looser according as the conditions` o running may' require, and to compensate forwear when it is desired to maintain such running conditions substantially constant. The nuts will tighten the cap down upon the shaft, and for the purpose of limiting the degree of such tightness, means are employed for holding the ca away from the stationary part of the journa bearing, and which means comprise a sleeve 13 mounted upon each of the bolts 7.

The sleeve 1n the present illustration has a screw-threaded connection as at 14 with the cap, and has a sliding connection with a collar or nut 15 in the nature of a washer, which connection permits independent longitudinal movement, but compels the parts to rotate in unison the collar or nut 15 is interposed between the flange or projecting portion 16 of the ca and the nuts 11 and 12. Aspline 22 is heres own for giving a suitable longitudinal sliding movement between the When it is desired to vary the s ace as 18 between the cap and the bearing, .t e nuts will be loosened and the' collar may then be rotated in some suitable manner, as by means of a Spanner wrench entering suitable recesses 19 in such plate. The rotation of the collar in the proper direction screws the sleeve toward or from the cap as occasion may demand. For the purpose of giving the cap greater stability or rigidity when it is finally adjusted in position the sleeve may be provided with a foot portion comprising a flange 20. To enable this ange to be properlyaccommodated when it is desired to limit the space 18, or to adjust the parts so that such space ceases to exist,

the bore in the cap through which the sleeve extends may have an enlarged or chambered portion 21, in which the foot ortion will partly normally be received, an into which it may be entirely withdrawn when it is desired to clamp the parts of the bearing tightly together.

In the present illustration both ends of the cap are shown provided with similar adjusting means, but it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that this duplication is not in all cases necessary for the proper `Working of the device.

Having described my invention I claim:

A two-part bearing comprising a base and a cap having an opening therethrou h, the opening through one member being-of larger diameter than that through the other and having its Wall threaded and provided With a communicating annular recess adjacent the opposed faee of the companion member of said bearing, a rotatable exteriorly threaded sleeve iitting said larger opening and )rovided with an annular iiange 'litting said recess and engaging said companion member to afford greater stability and rigidity to the cap, said threaded sleeve engagiinr the other member of said bearing, a bolt ittmg the unthreaded opening and sleeve and provided on its opposite ends with opposed clamping means for exerting pressure on the exterior Walls of said base and cap, and a collar between and engaging one of said members and the clamping'means on one end of' the bolt and exteriorly splined to said threaded ;-f

sleeve to permit longitudinal adjustment oi' said threaded sleeve and for rotating said sleeve.

CLIFTON REEVES. Witnesses:

ELLWooD W. VVATsoN, EDWIN T. FITZGEORGE. 

